# Vada (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vada/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,089 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 162 / 12,927 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 103, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 152 | 1,479 |
| 2012 | 158 | 1,450 |
| 2013 | 180 | 1,306 |
| 2014 | 201 | 1,220 |
| 2015 | 242 | 1,084 |
| 2016 | 307 | 908 |
| 2017 | 267 | 982 |
| 2018 | 267 | 989 |
| 2019 | 304 | 887 |
| 2020 | 335 | 813 |
| 2021 | 320 | 858 |
| 2022 | 331 | 848 |
| 2023 | 331 | 830 |
| 2024 | 273 | 958 |
| 2025 | 302 | 886 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 6 | 3,963 |
| 1960 | 11 | 2,676 |
| 1961 | 33 | 1,403 |
| 1962 | 25 | 1,622 |
| 1963 | 21 | 1,788 |
| 1964 | 20 | 1,848 |
| 1965 | 9 | 2,968 |
| 1966 | 7 | 3,523 |
| 1967 | 12 | 2,464 |
| 1971 | 7 | 4,359 |
| 1983 | 5 | 7,288 |
| 1989 | 6 | 7,862 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4,003 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,643 |
| 2020 | 14 | 1,939 |
| 2021 | 7 | 3,192 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,673 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,598 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,695 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.